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200571 Management Dynamics
School of Business — Management
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200571 Management Dynamics
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Title of assignment:
Individual written assignment Management
Length:
1,000 words (± 100 words)
Date due:
Submit through Turnitin, on or before 5:00PM Sunday of Week 6 (6 April 2014)
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200571 Management Dynamics
Written assignment #1: Management, Ethical Leadership
(Graded; worth 15% of total marks)
Purpose
This written assessment is the first of two, and it provides students with an exercise to assist in their understanding of two important areas of enquiry in management, viz.: the issues, concepts, themes and principles associated with business ethics and ethical practice within organisations and with the roles that leaders and their leadership, particularly ethical leadership, can have on an organisation developing, maintaining or further improving its own ethical culture. As indicated in the lecture on business ethics (and corporate social responsibility) this issue is attracting more and more attention by large organisations in terms of what their customers, other stakeholders and the general public think about them. How do organisations go about putting in place and then embedding a socially responsible agenda and an ethical culture? It would seem that the organisations leaders have a role to play; but do organisations with ethical cultures create ethical leaders or do ethical leaders create, develop and embed ethical cultures into organisations? In the lecture on leaders and leadership there was a distinction made between the leaders who is a person with certain characteristics and traits and their leadership which is an outward expression of the activities and acts that these leaders have with their followers. So are leaders with high moral identity the only ones that can express ethical leadership or are leaders and their leadership not so closely coupled? These are some of the issues that you will need to consider when responding to the more specific questions outlined below in terms of your response to this assessment on ethical leadership. In addition, this written assignment provides you with an opportunity to demonstrate your level of information literacy, and your ability to present a cogent and coherent piece of writing that includes appropriate critical analysis relevant to what is outlined below in terms of this assessment. THAT IS, MERELY REPORTING WHAT OTHERS SAY DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN EFFECTIVE ANSWER TO THIS ASSESSMENT. In your critical analysis you should consider the views of others and then argue on what you consider is their contribution in terms of ethical leadership. Completing this assignment will assist you to achieve learning outcomes 1, 2, and 3 shown in the unit outline.
Assessment
The importance of ethical leadership is a subject of interest in current management and leadership research. To some extent this has been driven by what has been seen as an on-going sequence of large, dominant and indeed global organisations behaving badly since around the turn of this century. Many of these organisations were financial institutions involved in quite questionable lending practices that ultimately led to the global financial crisis and in some cases to their own demise. It is contended that if these organisations had had a more ethical culture then the practices by a few senior managers may not have led to either their demise or their significant loss of corporate reputation. With hindsight possibly leaders with high moral values and good ethical leadership could have made a difference to the outcomes suffered by these organisations. Based on the discussion in the lectures on leaders and leadership as well as on corporate social responsibility and business ethics and the discussions that you had in the Week 2 and the Week 4 tutorials you are develop an essay about ethical leadership that addresses the following questions:
a. Do you believe that leaders are hard wired in terms of their ethical values and so do not or cannot change; or are leaders able to be flexible so at times will they display ethical standards and ethical leadership while at others maybe not?
b. Does an ethical leader have to be both a moral person as well as a moral manager?
c. Is it easier to act unethically and express unethical leadership towards followers than it is to act ethically and express ethical leadership? For example, if unethical leadership and the acts related to this leadership rely on not being found out how realistic is this presumption? Is it the case that in the end you are always found out?
d. What role do think Rupert Murdoch played in establishing a culture within News Corporation that ultimately led its employees to engage in the practice of phone hacking? Do you consider Rupert Murdoch to be an unethical leader?
e. When looking at the statements or letters from your ASX-listed corporations Chief Executive Officer (or Managing Director) and Chairman, what inferences can you make about whether or not these people demonstrate ethical leadership within their organisation?
Your response MUST include discussion for the following sources, viz.:
Brown, ME & Mitchell, MS 2010, ‘Ethical and Unethical Leadership: Exploring New Avenues for Future Research’, Business Ethics Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, October, pp. 583-616.
Amernic, J & Craig, R 2013, ‘Leadership Discourse, Culture, and Corporate Ethics: CEO-speak at News Corporation’, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 118, No. 2, pp. 379394.
In addition to the required sources shown above, you should use AT LEAST TWO other references that you have found. A superior answer will also include some real world examples as part of the evidence that supports your claims and arguments. The format of this assessment item should follow a discussion essay format with a brief introduction, a body and a brief conclusion. For further help on how to write an essay, see the College of Business Essay/Report Writing Guide which is available in the Assessments folder on the Management Dynamics vUWS site.
You also need to support any claims that you make by using relevant research literature, concentrating on peer-reviewed or scholarly sources. Note that newspaper articles and Wikipedia are not considered scholarly sources due to issues about peer review of the material presented. However, you can use newspaper articles and Wikipedia to obtain a general understanding on a topic that you are researching. Where scholarly sources are used then appropriate citing and referencing of these sources should be completed as part of your submission.
Submission details, Due Date and Turnitin
Your assignment MUST be submitted online using this assignment template through the relevant Turnitin assignment drop box, in the Management Dynamics vUWS site, on or before 11:45PM Sunday of Week 6 (6 April 2014). Assignments submitted after this time may be subject to a late penalty. Under no circumstances will any UWS staff involved with the delivery of Management Dynamics or otherwise accept hard copy submissions.
The Turnitin drop box in the Management Dynamics vUWS site should be used for TEXT MATCHING PURPOSES AND ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION. Using the Turnitin drop box for text matching means that you wish to generate and inspect a Turnitin originality report which highlights pieces of text for which Turnitin has found a match. Where proper acknowledgement is in place you will not need to do anything; where proper acknowledgement is not in place you will need to make changes to your assignment. If you have made changes to your assignment you can re-submit it to Turnitin, which will over-write the existing version of your assignment as well as generate another Turnitin originality report (note that there is a delay of up to 24-hours in getting an originality report for this second or any subsequent submission of your assignment). Students should be aware that the percentage of matches in the originality report may be misleading due to matching of text in the template and so students should concentrate on the text matched in their own written work.
As soon as you are happy that no further changes are necessary to your assignment you will then need to submit the final version of your assignment to the Turnitin assignment drop box. THAT IS,IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY THAT A FINAL VERSION OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS UPLOADED ON OR BEFORE THE DUE DATE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL THE EXCUSE THAT THE WRONG DOCUMENT WAS UPLOADED BE ACCEPTED.
Length
1000 words (± 100 words). Given the short length of this assessment item you should aim to be clear and concise in your writing in order to adhere to the word limit. Avoid lengthy descriptions, particularly of any material presented in lectures, in your text or from other sources. Do not use direct quotations but rather briefly paraphrase what is discussed in your sources. Note this word count does NOT include the words used to compile your References section at the end of your submission.
Format
Given the assessment asks for a response to specific questions, it is not strictly a discussion essay but you still need to follow the essay format for this assessment. As stated above, acknowledgement of any information sources must occur through using an in-text citation as well as a reference entry in the References section at the end of the essay for each source used. For more information on formatting citations and reference entries go to Referencing & Citation on the UWS Library Website by clicking on the following link:
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The essay should be well-formatted with discussion of one idea in each paragraph. The language used should be formal rather than informal and should also be both clear and grammatically sound. Your written text should not include any spelling errors. If in doubt on either of these issues then refer to the OWL website, which can be accessed by using the following link:
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Presentation
1. Make sure that you insert your assignment into this assignment template before uploading to the Turnitin assignment drop box.
2. As you are adopting an essay format for this assessment, you should NOT use headings or sub-headings.
3. Entries should be put into the footer where requested by this template.
4. The font to be used for this assignment is either Arial or Times New Roman script, 12 point font size, 1.5 line spacing, and left justified.
5. You also need to familiarise yourself with the Academic Misconduct Policy regarding plagiarism and collusion.
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200571 Management Dynamics:Assignment Marking Guide
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CRITERIA
STANDARDS
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Understands Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Able to research further into topics and concepts
(20%)
Does not meet standard above.
Little understanding of Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Misinterprets information. Almost no evidence of research beyond text and readings.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
A basic understanding of Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Little evidence of research beyond text and readings.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
A good understanding of Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Evidence of some good additional research linked to argument.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
A sound understanding of Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Evidence of well targeted additional research which helps with development of argument.
Does not meet standard above.
An outstanding understanding of Management Dynamics topics and concepts. Evidence of excellent additional research which is very relevant to argument.
Developed an effective response to the assessment questions (25%)
Does not meet standard above.
Did not make a real attempt to answer the assessment questions.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Made a limited attempt to answer some of the assessment questions.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Made a good attempt but only answered some of the assessment questions.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Made a very good attempt and answered most of the assessment questions.
Does not meet standard above.
Made a very good attempt and answered all of the assessment questions.
Able to demonstrate independent critical analysis skills (15%)
Does not meet standard above.
Regurgitates information from lectures and readings. Little evidence of critical thinking or analysis.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
A satisfactory level of critical thinking or analysis with a tendency to describe.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
A good level of critical thinking or analysis. Insightful and critical reflections start to emerge.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
An extremely good level of critical thinking or analysis. Insightful and critical reflections are evident.
Does not meet standard above.
An excellent level of critical thinking or analysis. Insightful and critical reflections are evident. Synthesizes concepts and abstract ideas.
Able to construct a coherent and logical discussion (20%)
Does not meet standard above.
Disjointed, unfocused, poorly structured argument. Disconnected, fragmented paragraphs; no clear line of argument.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Evidence of a basic line of argument; improvement needed to create coherent argument.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Organization of ideas relatively clear, but some work still needed to take argument to a higher level.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Able to construct a coherent line of argument right through the assessment.
Does not meet standard above.
Able to construct a coherent line of argument right through the assessment, and to effectively synthesize and integrate ideas.
Able to use sound grammar and spelling (10%)
Does not meet standard above.
Poor expression due to poor grammar and/or incorrect punctuation. Unacceptable number of spelling errors.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Some grammatical discrepancies; few punctuation and spelling errors.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Relatively good grammar and punctuation. No punctuation and spelling errors.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Very good grammar and punctuation.
Does not meet standard above.
Sound grammar, punctuation and spelling. An elegant writing style. A great joy to read!
Made appropriate acknowledgements to information sources (10%)
Does not meet standard above.
Most ideas from information sources have not been appropriately acknowledged.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
Attempted Harvard referencing but displays poor grasp of academic convention.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
All of the ideas from information sources have been acknowledged. Some inconsistencies in Harvard referencing with in-text citations and/or references.
Meets neither the standard above nor the standard below.
All of the ideas from information sources have been acknowledged; a high level of understanding of the Harvard system.
Does not meet standard above.
An excellent level of comprehensive referencing throughout the assessment. Reference list is complete and without any errors.